Ask a Doctor Pelvic exam guidelines have changed. Here’s what to expect. Patients will now need to sign consent forms at hospitals before sensitive procedures such as pelvic, prostate and rectal ...

Sarah Wright, a science teacher, in her home in Madison, Wis. on Feb. 8, 2020. In most states, it is legal for a medical student to perform a pelvic exam on a woman who is under anesthesia; Wright ...

WASHINGTON — No more dreaded pelvic exam? New guidelines say most healthy women can skip the yearly ritual.

Doctors Megan Ranney and Monique Rainford explain why the US Food and Drug Administration’s approval of new methods that allow patients to collect their own samples during a pelvic exam is so ...

Is it OK to get a Pap smear on your period? What about a pelvic exam? Here, doctors explain what to keep in mind.

Medical Examiner Why Are Pelvic Exams on Unconscious, Unconsenting Women Still Part of Medical Training? We understand consent better than ever. So why haven’t we ended this practice?

Pelvic-exam season is a giddy, scary rite of passage for young med students, one that ranks up there with delivering their first baby and meeting their first cadaver in anatomy class.

The American College of Physicians says most women do not need an annual pelvic exam. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists disagrees.

A practitioner obtained a standardized history from the patient to assess for cervicitis or pelvic inflammatory disease; pelvic examination was performed by the same practitioner.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported in December that women were traveling to Illinois to undergo medication abortions after Missouri began enforcing the pelvic exam rule.